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From Tom Smith, Sunday, 10-2-2011 at Loantaka Brook Reservation. A link to a Google map is here:

Interestingly, I found another Philadelphia Vireo today by the pond at Loantaka. They must like it there. There were some other birds there as well: a few Blackpolls and Parulas, lots of Yellow-Rumps, Yellowthroat, Magnolia, and Red-Eyed Vireo, among others. Almost all the migrant passerines today were clustered around the eastern end of the pond near the spillway.
A migrant Osprey was circling the pond, but didn’t catch anything. Green-winged Teal have arrived – they usually spend the winter there.

– Tom

From Tim Vogel:
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St. Clare’s Hospital Fields, Denville
9/30 AM and PM visits
GW Teal 2
RB Gull 30+
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2 (one with broken leg)
Killdeer 23
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10/1 AM
GW Teal 2
RB Gull 25
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2 (one with broken leg)
Pectoral Sandpiper 6
Least Sandpiper 2
Semi Sandpiper 1
Nice sparrow fallout (song)
Brown Thrasher
Kingfisher
Tennessee, Palm, Yellowthroat, Yellow Warblers
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NOTE: Harvest Festival is tomorrow in upper field – access will involve a long walk in. But stop by for a beer and sausage or game of chance. Portion of proceeds go to local flood victims.
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Tim Vogel
Denville

A Stilt Sandpiper was found this morning in McCarter Park, a.k.a the fields of St.Clare’s, in Denville.
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The list:
Green-winged Teal 4
Osprey 1
Killdeer 32
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 3
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Ring-billed Gull 113
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I.d. pictures

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Submitted by Jonathan Klizas

From Tim Vogel:

St. Clare’s Field, Denville
4:30pm
Fields again flooded including access road.
Use left rear corner of medical building – there is a path.
The mosquitoes are waiting.

Pectoral Sandpipers – 13
Killdeer – 1 heard
RB Gull 150+
Mallards +

Tim Vogel
Denville

This morning, 4 Caspian Terns were actively flying around Budd Lake in Mt. Olive Township, Morris County. Other than the terns and a small group of distant assumed Tree Swallows the lake was quiet. A tour of other Morris County lakes (Musconetcong, Mt. Hope, Boonton Reservoir) was unfruitful. Shorebird habitat is in short supply, if at all, in Morris County this year. The fields at St. Clare’s in Denvile (a.k.a. McCarter Park) which have been productive since Hurricane Irene are inaccessible once again due to flooding.

Submitted by Jonathan Klizas

Additional information from Tom Halliwell:

Two Caspians were still at Budd Lake at 1:00. The other two were probably the ones I saw at the theater-end of Lake Musconetcong 10 minutes later.

I was hoping to find something interesting at Kittatinny Valley SP, but all I got were mosquitos!

All the best,
Tom